This pseudo Georges de la Tour portrait once again exhibits the same concerns with the illusion of illusion as 20th Century Blue. Here the painting is wrapped in the same cloth as the subject of the painting - a photographic reproduction of a hand-painted reproduction of a photographic reproduction of a mock Baroque composition. “The facade of a facade, behind which there is nothing,” as Julien Torma wrote to Rene Daumal, or perhaps it is too much to say nothing, it would perhaps be more accurate to say, behind which there lies not even nothing. If the modern is the art of absence, then the post-modern is the art of the absence of absence, which is not to say presence (as the logicians would have it), but moves into the realm of paradox, and beyond, and this was the direction these pieces were heading in.